If you’ve been following the news, you know that the Kansas board of regents on Wednesday adopted a social media policy that allows faculty and other to be punished for a broad and vaguely defined range of expressions, including any that are “contrary to the best interests of the employer” or “impairs . . .…
This is a scoop from Business Insider on the cover story of the new issue of TIME magazine: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-time-magazine-rape-cover-2014-5
Action Follows March Protest at NY State Department of Education, Letter Ignored by Governor Cuomo Mary-Faith Cerasoli, an adjunct professorof Spanish and Italian who made national news by protesting her poverty-level conditions while teaching at two New York colleges, made an emergency room visit to Winthrop-University Hospital today after holding a five-day hunger strike on…
Please go to these news links to post your comments! Faculty Continue Anti-MOOC Offensive: Rhetoric Check Inside Higher Ed The faculty leaders behind the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education continued their barrage against massive open online courses on Tuesday, challenging the providers to come clean on “overblown, misleading or simply false” rhetoric. 5-14-14…
College and University Faculty and Educational Staff Challenge CEOs of Coursera, EdX and Udacity to a Public Debate on Concerns Raised in Animated Video; First Public Screening of Video Will Be at National Gathering in Albany on May 16-17 The Campaign for the Future of Higher Education released a new animated video on its web…
Robert Buckingham, the Executive Director of the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Public Health and a full professor, was fired and had his tenure revoked yesterday for criticizing the university’s restructuring plan, TransformUS. Upon arriving at work Wednesday morning, Buckingham was met by two campus security officers who promptly escorted him off campus and told him to stay off…
On Wednesday, May 14, a student completing a project called me to report that murals were being systematically destroyed in Copernicus Hall at Central CT State University. CCSU is home to perhaps largest and finest collection of murals at any university in the world. Previously, murals have occasionally been removed, but generally in consultation…
(Courtesy of Stanford University Archives) Stanford engineering professor Guido Marx (1871-1949) was a member of the committee that organized the founding meeting of the AAUP. Between 1915 and 1919, he served on the Council and on two committees related to membership. He also served on the first investigation of the University of Montana in 1915.…
By Donald Lazere I sent out the following “Appeal” last February. I received no response from ACTA and a form rejection from the Center for the American University. NAS posted it on its home page, where it received two evasive responses. George Leef, head of the Pope Center, answered with a review of my book.…
Guest blogger Ulf Kirchdorfer teaches English at Darton State College in Albany, GA. He says that “in wake of recent seriousness and silliness, I wrote the piece in part to come to terms with recent events.” We were going to invite Jesus Christ to come speak at our school, but the trouble was some said he was Jewish,…